Head of Engineering

Food services serve about 30,000 meals a day. Chiselline is a public school district with more than 40,000 students and 20,100 employees. Coaching and club stipends are paid on top of salary.

Job summary:

Chiselline is looking for a Head of Engineering to join a small, steady team. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with UK business hours. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Duties:

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.

What you need:

• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.

Preferred:

• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.

Compensation: $36.50 - $42.50 per hour

Why work with us:

• Long-term engagement.
• Company laptop.
• Paid in USD.
• Annual rate review.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Chiselline.